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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

19 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Peter Tatchell at the Cowley Road CarnivalImage via Wikipedia

The Talking Clock

Facing South

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 3 Interesting Ubuntu Unity Mobile Mockups
    User created ideas and concepts have always been an hallmark of popular Linux based distors like Ubuntu. We have featured such awesome works by loyal users, ranging from awe inspiring Ubuntu Unity mockups to professional looking LibreOffice mockups. Shuttleworth, ...
  • 5 Things I Would Like to See Improved in Ubunt ...
    Ubuntu Software Center had a complete makeover recently. But I have to admit, even with all those changes, it still feels unfinished. In our earlier Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot review, we did shared our concern with the unfinished nature of Ubuntu Software Center and had promised a more elabor ...
  • Why Protect IP is Bad? [Video, Infographic]
    The title of the video goes something like this - Protect IP breaks the Internet - and that pretty much sums it up. Quoting EFF, "The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known as PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House - is a threatening sequel to last year's C ...
  • Firefox 10 Alpha is Here, How to install it in ...
    Firefox 8.0 has just been released and we will see how to install or upgrade to latest Firefox 8.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot below. Meanwhile, nightly builds of Firefox 10.0 is already available for installation in Ubuntu Oneiric via PPA. Firefox 10.0 Alpha 1, as expected, scores a perfec ...
  • Awoken 2.3 Brings New Themes, Better Support f ...
    AwOken along with Faenza icons theme are surely among the most feverishly updated icon themes for GNOME. With the arrival of Unity and GNOME Shell though, all these popular icon themes needed to adapt in order to stay relevant. AwOken icons theme 2.3 update does just that. Latest iteration o ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • “THE FOURTH EMPIRE”: POLITICAL THR ...
    Stay tuned to this blog for „The Fourth Empire“, a contemporary political thriller which will be available from next week. Set in Switzerland, it describes a meeting of the global elite who are planning to set up a new world order, This thriller drops the reader straight into a meeting of the el ...
  • GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IN EUROZONE IF EU ...
    *CAMERON AND MERKEL AGREE TO EU POWER GRAB OVER NATIONAL BUDGETS AS PART OF “STABILITY UNION” *NO MORE TAXATION WITH REPRESENTATION PLANNED FOR THE EUROZONE *BANKER TECHNOCRATS TO REPLACE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS *GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IF CENTRALISATION OF POWER IN THE EUROZONE  CO ...
  • GREEK REFERENDUM GIVES HOPE TO EUROZONE
    The decision by the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to call a national referendum on the country’s next EU bail-out package has won praise across the eurozone, fanning the flames for freedom even in the dark depths of oppressed Germany. German SPD chief Frank-Walter Steinmeier called it ...
  • IS THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT GENUINE?
    * WHY I WILL NOT BE JOINING THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT * MY EXPERIENCES DURING THE SWINE FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN AND WHY THEY ACT AS A WARNING ABOUT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT *POTENTIAL TRAPS OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT FACEBOOK SITES HAVE BEEN LITTLE DISCUSSED * FOCUS ON SOUND MONEY AND RE-ADOPT ...
  • CONCLUSIVE PROOF: SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NEU ...
    *FINLAND’S GOVERNMENT WILL PAY FOR A LIFETIME OF CARE FOR 79 CHILDREN DAMAGED BY VACCINE Conclusive link now admitted: swine flu vaccine causes chronic nervous system disorders Mike Adams Natural News Sunday, October 9, 2011 (NaturalNews) The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • UN, Bill Gates Foundation Push Deadly HPV Shot ...
    Anthony Gucciardi A new campaign has been launched by an organization known as the GAVI Alliance to vaccinate up to 2 million women and girls with either GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix or Merck’s Gardasil by the year 2015. Of course these two HPV shots have been shown to be very dangerous, with Gard ...
  • Dorli Rainey: Who is the 84-year-old woman pep ...
    The Occupy Movement finally has a face. But who is the woman behind it? Metro – Dorli Rainey: Who is the 84-year-old wo…, posted with vodpod
  • The Highway of The Thresher with the Rotating ...
    By Les Visiblde Many of the people at Occupy Wall Street are there because of an internal urging that they may not fully understand, including what planetary combination of forces is behind it. Some are being compelled out of their former existence because of a basic personal honesty, like that ...
  • Ray Lewis: Retired Philadelphia police captain ...
    REBECCA SEIDMAN Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis was arrested early this morning in New York City after taking part in an Occupy Wall Street demonstration. Lewis, who retired from the Philadelphia Police Department in 2004, joined the Occupy Wall Street protesters on Tuesday, holdin ...
  • Obama: first American President to name his ow ...
    New Law By Obama To Jail 500,000 American Citizens Or More For The Crime Of Opposing Their Government. Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:20 Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse ...

Veterans Today

  • German Foreign Minister Visits Afghanistan
    German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle landed Kabul airport for an official visit, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Janan Musazai told Rashidi Veterans to day Reporter. “Westerwelle is planned to meet his Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasoul talking on the preparedness for Bonn second conference schedu ...
  • Foreign Forces Kill Afghan Police in Ghazni
    Five policemen were killed and wounded in a foreign troops operation in the southern Ghazni province, police said.
  • West Preparing For A Decisive Operation To Ous ...
    Intelligence inputs from the Middle East suggest that a final and decisive 'mini war' to take out Bashar al-Assad's regime is going to be initiated soon.
  • America’s Media War on OWS
    Early reporting was scant, dismissive, and offensive. Much still belittles, denigrates and marginalizes a significant movement.
  • VA Celebrates National Family Caregiver Month
    The Department of Veterans Affairs will join the National Family Caregivers Association to recognize and appreciate dedicated partners providing daily health care for Veterans during National Family Caregiver Month in November.

electric politics

  • Accelerated Ideas
    When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...
  • Codebreaker
    In celebration of Veterans Day, here's a question: What if the U.S. had lost the battle of Midway? Mercifully, we'll never know. But the U.S. victory could not have happened without the codebreaking skill and the unflinching courage — a relentless determination to be heard — of Joe R ...
  • Made in America
    Since elected officials don't seem so interested, around the country local groups are organizing to promote the reindustrialization of America. One of these is SFMade. Robin McRoskey Azevedo is on the board of SFMade and is also President and owner of the McRoskey Mattress Company of San Francis ...
  • The Illusion of Free Markets
    Let's take the long view. We're unconsciously mired in unexamined 18th century beliefs that color our perceptions in unexpected — and exceedingly harmful — ways. Take one, for example: as Dr. Bernard Harcourt suggests, our notion of a "free market" is the direct intellectual descenda ...
  • The Art of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
    John Stewart, voted the most influential environmental activist in Britain in 2008, who led the successful movement to block a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, was scheduled to be on a speaking tour around America just about now. U.S. immigration authorities, however, had other plans. ...

PR News

  • Truly Nolen hires Cramer-Krasselt
    PHOENIX: Pest control company Truly Nolen has named the Phoenix office of Cramer-Krasselt its first integrated AOR.
  • HP consolidates agency relationships
    PALO ALTO, CA: Hewlett-Packard has consolidated its PR agency roster and is no longer working with Bite Communications and Weber Shandwick on global corporate work, confirmed Mylene Mangalindan, director of corporate communications at the company.
  • 'Early Show' changes present public affairs op ...
    CBS' move to recreate 'The Early Show' as a hard-news alternative to rival morning programs is a positive development for communications professionals representing clients in corporate and public affairs.
  • Cheerios, USO 'Cheer' military families
    MINNEAPOLIS: General Mills' Cheerios brand and the USO have rolled out the "Cheer" campaign, encouraging consumers to send postcards to military families this month.
  • Huntsworth reports client cutbacks, 7% Q3 growth
    LONDON: Huntsworth reported 7% overall like-for-like revenue growth in the third quarter. Yet the holding company, which owns Citigate, Huntsworth Health, Grayling, and Red, said it is experiencing heavy end-of-year client cutbacks.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: November 19, 2011
    ==== Pentagon “To Spread Out Through All Of Asia” Openly Now U.S., Allies To Hold Largest Amphibious Assault Exercise In Ten Years NATO As “Guarantor Of Energy Security” In Europe, Black Sea NATO Training Mission-Iraq Briefs Allied Military Attachés In Baghdad U.S. Submar ...
  • J.B. Priestley: Insane regress of ultimate wea ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts J.B. Priestley Britain and the Nuclear Bombs (1957) ***** The prospect now is not one of countries without navies but navies without countries. And we have arrived at an insane regress of ultimate weapons that are not ultimate. For that ...
  • Stop NATO news: November 18, 2011
    ==== NATO Holds First Live-Fire Test Of Interceptor Missile System Video And Text: Cameron of Arabia, Sarkozy of Damascus And Libya Model For Syria Britain, France, Germany Push UN Resolution On Syria U.S. Seeks News Blackout Of Afghan Strategic Deal India Headed For Full SCO Membership: Russian ...
  • U.S. Arms Persian Gulf Allies For Conflict Wit ...
    Stop NATO November 18, 2011 U.S. Arms Persian Gulf Allies For Conflict With Iran Rick Rozoff Rumors and reports of, speculation over and scenarios for attacks against Iran’s civilian nuclear power facilities and military sites by the United States, Israel or both have flared up periodicall ...
  • William Dean Howells: Editha
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts William Dean Howells Editha (1905) The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which had not yet burst. Editha sat looking out into the hot spring afternoon, with her lips parted, and panting with the intensi ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Army Achieves ‘Skynet’ – Sel ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas November 19, 2011 Army engineers just meet and discussed how far their “self-aware decision-making network” has come at the Communications Conference 2011 in Baltimore. The future of modern weaponry is here, and it doesn’t look good. This advanced ...
  • Russian Warships Entering Syrian Waters to Inh ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie November 18, 2011 In what represents the most confrontation between the West and Russia over the issue of Syrian intervention to date, Haaretz reports that a Syrian news agency said that Russian warships are due to arrive in Syrian t ...
  • Save the Internet and Boycott these Companies
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie November 18, 2011 Note from Alex Thomas of The Intel Hub: This paragraph that appeared in an article on netmagizine really sums up how this act could be used to specifically attack alternative media! Suw Charman-Anderson, a social so ...
  • Is the U.S. Goading China in the South China S ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie November 18, 2011 During U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Australia this week, he told the Australian Parliament, “Our enduring interests in the region demand our enduring presence in this region. The United States is a Pacific ...
  • SOPA: Anonymous Launches Operation Blackout &# ...
    YouTube November 18, 2011 From Video Description: EMERGENCY ACTION AUTHORIZED. ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL PROTESTS IS NEEDED. CONVERGE AT FREEWAYS AND HIGHWAYS. LIBRARIES, MALLS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS…ALL ARE ACCEPTABLE AREAS! STARTING TOMORROW! This is the most important operation in t ...

FRS

  • Human Rights, the Occupy Movement, and Lessons ...
    by the US Human Rights Network The financial and economic collapse that began in 2007-2008 became the essential catalyst, domestically and internationally, for the rebellion against neoliberalism that we are witnessing today. Neoliberalism, in its very essence is a violation of human rights. Acc ...
  • California: Three Prisoners Die in Hunger Str ...
    November 17, 2011 — CDCR Withholds Information from Family Members, Fails to Report Deaths Press Contact: Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity, http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ Oakland – In the month since the second phase of a massive prisoner hunger stri ...
  • Police State Tactics: Signs Point to a Coordin ...
    [A Call to All victims, witnesses, investigators, journalists, corporate executive secretaries, janitors, and conscience-driven whistleblowers within the police state apparatus:  Anyone with evidence of federal coordination and planning of the national repression of the Occupy Wall Street and re ...
  • Portugal refuses US extradition request for ex ...
    Portugal court refuses to send US fugitive home By BARRY HATTON, Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A Portuguese court on Thursday denied a U.S. request for the extradition of captured American fugitive George Wright, who spent 41 years on the lam in a journey that took him across three co ...
  • Greek police use tear gas on anti-austerity march
    by Renee Maltezou and Harry Papachristou ATHENS | Thu Nov 17, 2011–Youths protesting against austerity on Thursday, one day after a national unity government took office charged with imposing painful tax rises and spending cuts to save Greece from bankruptcy. More than 30,000 people m ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • FOR THE RECORD – INTERNATIONAL NOTICE &# ...
    WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Allegiance, I have absolutely no Allegiance to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Residence, I maintain no Residence in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with paying taxes, I pay no ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity – Pathological Liars ...
    UPDATE - For the idiots who bought the lies and slander of Catherine Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald), Saeb Shaath, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins, Allison Hubbard (aka Vera Lynn), Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja), Mary Rizzo, Mary Shepherd, Miri Wood, Jo Ann Westcott and court jes ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters &#8 ...
    Here it is, please share this film and support the more than 90 families facing eviction in any way you can. TJP, Ken   Produced, Directed and Edited by Ken O’Keefe Contact for Dale Farm Residents Association dale.farm@btinternet.com T: +44 7888 699256 or +44 1206 523528 Contact for D ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters Pro ...
    The Irish traveler community of Dale Farm in England are facing a forced eviction, they are also facing a racist system that falsely claims that the residents of Dale Farm are flouting the law. That is a lie, and the truth will be set out in the full documentary set to be released on October 1, ...
  • When Human Rights Become Subordinate to “The L ...
    The prostitutes of propaganda (POPs), otherwise known as the mainstream media, would have you believe that the Irish Traveler residents of Dale Farm are nothing more than miscreants who expect special favours when it comes to the law. For those who know nothing of Dale Farm, here is a very abbr ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • A View of the McDonald's Beating Video from a ...
    I am using my personal experience as a McDonald's worker to discuss the actions of the McDonald's worker who was caught on tape beating two women.Contributor: Marie Brandon Published: Oct 16, 2011
  • Some Dietary Supplements Associated with Highe ...
    Most people believe that dietary supplements improve health and prolong life, but a new study shows this may be an erroneous belief. Recent research published in a medical journal found that certain supplements were linked to earlier death in older women.Contributor: M West Published: Oct 14, 2011
  • Obama Sends US Troops to Central Africa
    President Obama has followed up on months of effort to support Central Africa in their fight against the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army. On Oct. 12, the first of 100 U.S. military were sent to Uganda to "provide information, advice, and assistance."Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: Oct 1 ...
  • Missing Handyman Takes Stage in Lisa Irwin Inv ...
    Though statistics suggest it's unlikely the handyman took baby Lisa Irwin from her crib, police are looking to question him in connection with the case.Contributor: Carol Bengle Gilbert Published: Oct 14, 2011
  • Surfer Gets the Ride of His Life on a Great Wh ...
    A surfer in Seaside, Oregon, got the ride - and scare - of his life on a great white shark.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Oct 13, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, November ...
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, November ...
    This week's image roundup brings some amazing stuff, including this shot of a moonbow (shot at night, lit by the moon), a waterfall, and an aurora, all at once. But also robots, time-lapse space videos, beautiful ocean worms, the world's lightest material, and so much more. Click to launch our I ...
  • In Repetition of Controversial Experiment, Neu ...
    Remember in September when neutrinos were observed moving faster than the speed of light, potentially overturning everything we thought we knew about physics? It was met with all sorts of skepticism and dubiety, so the physicists decided to replicate their experiment and take new measurements. W ...
  • International Scientists Race to Create the He ...
    Two international teams are competing to create the heaviest element in the universe. Super-heavy elements are the elements at the bottom of the periodic table with an atomic number (the number of protons) above 104. The previous heaviest element, temporarily called ununoctium, was "discovered" ...
  • New Material Promises Faster Chips, Faster Int ...
    We’ve constructed a world out of fiber optic cable and silicon, but Arizona State University researchers think their new material can do better. They have synthesized a new kind of single-crystal nanowire from a compound of erbium--a material generally used to dope fiber optic cables to amplify ...

Veterans Today

  • German Foreign Minister Visits Afghanistan
    German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle landed Kabul airport for an official visit, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Janan Musazai told Rashidi Veterans to day Reporter. “Westerwelle is planned to meet his Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasoul talking on the preparedness for Bonn second conference schedu ...
  • Foreign Forces Kill Afghan Police in Ghazni
    Five policemen were killed and wounded in a foreign troops operation in the southern Ghazni province, police said.
  • West Preparing For A Decisive Operation To Ous ...
    Intelligence inputs from the Middle East suggest that a final and decisive 'mini war' to take out Bashar al-Assad's regime is going to be initiated soon.
  • America’s Media War on OWS
    Early reporting was scant, dismissive, and offensive. Much still belittles, denigrates and marginalizes a significant movement.
  • VA Celebrates National Family Caregiver Month
    The Department of Veterans Affairs will join the National Family Caregivers Association to recognize and appreciate dedicated partners providing daily health care for Veterans during National Family Caregiver Month in November.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • End in sight to extraordinary November weather
    It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
  • Is the solar sector facing collapse?
    The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...
  • Satellite global temperatures fall sharply in ...
    The latest global temperature anomaly for October has been released and according to the UAH measure it's fallen sharply to +0.114C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.367C above the 1961-1990 ...
  • Autumn warmth continues
    November has started where October left off, with mild temperatures expected over the next few days as southerly winds continue. Provisional figures show October has been the 8th warmest since 1910 across the UK. The month will be remembered for the heat during the first weekend, when Yorkshi ...
  • The winter forecast and media hype
    The hype surrounding this year's winter forecast has been remarkable, unparalleled in my 20 years as a meteorologist. Driven largely by sections of the tabloid press and several small private weather companies, the idea that this winter could be the worst ever recorded has already become firmly ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Of EU-Wide Bonds & Gerhard Schroeder's 'Harikiri'
    There's interesting stuff c/o the Globalist's Stephan Richter on how German austerity measures under previous German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) actually set the stage for his CDU successor Angela Merkel to reap the benefits. The straightforward narrative he ...
  • Austerity Victim: APEC Leaders' Fancy Dress Party
    Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And dreamed of all the great things we would do... Those were the days, indeed, as Mary Hopkin once sang. Remember in bygone years when Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leade ...
  • PRC SWF Official: European Welfare Undid Europe
    In the past, I have poked fun at poor investments the China Investment Corporation (CIC) has made as the PRC's sovereign wealth fund. If there ever was an example of a buy at peak price strategy, then CIC would have it: Blackstone, Morgan Stanley...the list goes on and on. Now, however, its Cha ...
  • Does US Want to Isolate China Via an APEC FTA?
    Oops, I may have spoken too soon when I mentioned that the US would not seek to antagonize China by excluding it from an Asia-Pacific FTA. This is just a brief follow-up to a recent post I made pooh-poohing prospects for an expanded Trans-Pacific Partnership composed of APEC member countries. F ...
  • Japan Returns to 'Stealth Intervention' Tactics
    Since we once more encountered Japanese intervention to drive down the value of the mighty yen in September of 2010 after a hiatus of about six years, there has been a pattern in place. Tha Bank of Japan makes a big announcement concerning market volatility or the unduly strong yen. In turn, thi ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...
  • 35 Facts About The Gutting Of America’s ...
    Did you know that an average of 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year?  As World War II ended, the United States emerged as the greatest industrial power that the world has ever seen.  But now America's industrial might is bein ...
  • The Police State Vs. Occupy Wall Street: This ...
    Right now, we are watching the early rounds of a heavyweight fight between two extremely determined opponents.  Occupy Wall Street has no plans of losing this fight and neither do law enforcement authorities.  Perhaps those running the show actually believed that raiding Zuccotti ...
  • 22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization ...
    In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust.  Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that there will only be isolated incidents of theft in our community and that rioting an ...
  • Bernanke Says That Any Criticism Of The Federa ...
    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is taking his show on the road in at attempt to help Americans feel better about the Federal Reserve.  During a visit to the Fort Bliss headquarters of the Army’s 1st Armored Division this week, Bernanke held a town hall meeting during which ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Qualcomm announces Quad Core CPUs for Mobile P ...
    Qualcomm is expanding its Snapdragon lineup – adding chipsets to both the entry-level S1 line and the Krait lineup. Krait is a brand new design that will scale to up to 2.5GHz with one, two or four cores. It promises better power efficiency than current architectures. The S4 badge will be ...
  • Closer US-Australia defence ties irk China
    Communist Party paper attacks Obama’s plan to deploy up to 2,500 troops and boost air force co-operation with Canberra. China has reacted angrily to remarks by Barack Obama signalling a significant shift in US policy vis-a-vis Asia. The US president has pledged not to let his country&#8217 ...
  • Eurasian Union: Greater than EU, but not new USSR
    Three former Soviet republics have launched a new regional integration project, with at least two others on track to join in. Critics accuse Moscow of rebuilding the USSR, but architects of project say the aim is to become a better version of the EU. The idea of the Eurasian Union – initially be ...
  • Russian Warships Enter Syrian Waters To Preven ...
    Moscow in aggressive move to stop another American “humanitarian intervention”. Russian warships have entered Syrian territorial waters in an aggressive move designed to prevent any NATO-led attack on the country under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention”. “Russian warships are due to arri ...
  • Bloomberg’s office admits to arresting journal ...
    Arrests in the Occupy movement nationally have surpassed 1,000, with 177 being charged by the NYPD this Thursday in only the first few hours. Now New York is admitting that journalists that they credentialed are among those that were cuffed by cops. In a statement to the press released from Mayo ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
  • State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
    The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...
  • Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
    Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...
  • 8 Simple Actions to Change Pope From Liar to L ...
    The Catholic hierarchy, from Pope on down, are liars. They pretend, and regularly claim, to be “doing everything possible” to help victims of their widespread and systematic child rape and other abuses, to protect children and to bring offenders to justice. In reality they are doing ...
  • Pope responsible for crimes against humanity
    Last week the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) lodged documents with the International Criminal Court in The Hague detailing the widespread and systematic campaign of sexual violence and exploitation of many, many thousands of children worldwide by the Catholic Church. I am on ...

WL Central

  • 2011-11-18 Arrests & Renewal #OccupyLA Day 48
    TweetI just got out of jail a few hours ago. I was one of 300 people arrested Thursday in Occupy Wall St. protests across the United States. In Los Angeles, a total of 67 people were arrested from Occupy Los Angeles, SEIU and Good Jobs LA which combined forces for two back-to-back protests, both ...
  • 2011-11-18 #WikiLeaks News: Christine Assange ...
    Tweet The consensus of the Australian people I’ve spoken to… is the credibility loss at the moment globally for the U.S. is coming more from their reaction to WikiLeaks than the leaks themselves. - Christine Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating dir ...
  • 2011-11-17 The Hypocrisy of a President
    TweetAuthored by Sam. “Hypocrisy is the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have”. On the 17th of November 2011 US President Barack Obama addressed the Australian House of Representatives and while well intentioned, the hy ...
  • 2011-11-17 #WikiLeaks News: #day4JA with Chris ...
    Tweet It is time for Australia to stand up for its citizens, for its values and for itself as a nation. - Jennifer Robinson This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom ...
  • 2011-11-17 Mass arrests at #OccupyWallStreet, ...
    TweetThe #N-17 'Day of Action' called for by #OccupyWallSt to protest for the violent eviction of the camp at Liberty Sq. on the 15th started early: at 7:00 AM hundreds of protesters blocked the intersections leading into Wall Street, actually managing to delay the opening bell at the New York S ...

U N News

  • UN rights chief hails Brazil's truth commissio ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today hailed the creation of Brazil's truth commission as an important first step towards promoting healing and investigating the violations that took place during the political repression of 1946 to 1988.
  • Migiro praises Uruguay for joining UN campaign ...
    Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has commended Uruguay for joining the United Nations campaign that seeks to end violence against women by raising awareness and generating political will to implement measures to stem the scourge.
  • UN relief official urges donors to support Cen ...
    The deputy United Nations humanitarian chief today urged donors to give generously to assist Nicaragua and El Salvador cope with the aftermath of the recent floods, saying that the scale of the disaster is beyond what the small Central American nations can handle on their own.
  • UN and Brazil launch initiative to combat hung ...
    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Brazilian Government today launched a new initiative to help countries run their own national school meal programmes to advance the nutrition and education of children.
  • Central America floods crisis only just beginn ...
    The humanitarian emergency caused by last month&#39s devastating floods in Central America is only just beginning, a top United Nations relief official said today, warning that the situation could get worse for the estimated 1.2 million people affected without urgent international support.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Save the Great Arctic Refuge Wilderness! Aroun ...
    Today, the National Wilderness Preservation System has 757 Wilderness Area units totaling 109,512,959 acres.  Each Wilderness Area has great worth, but some stand out.  Among those, the Wilderness Area that to me is the Flagship of the National Wilderness Preservation System is the Arctic Nation ...
  • The Wolf is Back!
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
    (NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
    Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman “ ...
    From an earlier “Campfire,” Rewilding the East: Early landscape architect and regional planner Benton MacKaye, who also was a founder of The Wilderness Society in 1935, called for a foot-trail along the highline of the Appalachians in the early 1920s. After reading an article by Aldo ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Obama Pushing Shooters Off PUBLIC Lands... Are ...
      Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms. ~ See update rea ...
  • Obama Urges Americans to Quit Smoking... (What ...
      The White House on Thursday released a video of President Obama congratulating Americans who are participating in the Great American Smokeout, saying it underscores “our administration’s commitment to fighting tobacco use.” read more
  • The SECRET Farm Bill...
      Lawmakers on the House and Senate Agriculture committees are trying to write a new five-year farm bill through the supercommittee process... The legislators are using the supercommittee to avoid what would be a more public, election-year debate in 2012, when the current farm bill expi ...
  • S. 968 (SOPA) HR. 3261... THE WORST BILL IN ...
      The worst bill in Internet history is about to become law! Google knows it. Viacom knows it. The Chamber of Commerce knows it. Internet democracy groups know it. BoingBoing knows it. But, the Internet hasn't been told yet... We're going to get blown away by the end of the year! ~ Co ...
  • Vaccine Pushing CDC Wastes Millions of Tax Dol ...
      ABC News video reports on the wild expenditures of the CDC even as the agency fails at preventing disease. But it’s very successful at promoting vaccines! The former head of the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding, is now the President of Pfizer’s global vaccine division. ~ See this V ...

Tarpley

  • Report from Syria
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars November 15, 2011 [download audio]
  • Bekämpft die Banken und deren Spekulation
    von Ingo Hagel Umkreis-Online 7. November 2011 Man mag zum Standpunkt von Webster Tarpley – einem der brillantesten und mutigsten investigativen Journalisten – zur Erhaltung des Euros, stehen wie man will (ich selber sehe nicht, wie der Euro angesichts der wirtschaftlichen Unterschiede der versc ...
  • فارسی
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Farsi Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Tarpley Interviewed on Occupy Wall Street by Major Iranian Newspaper Zendegi News – 1390/8/17 [permalink] [...]
  • IMF Agent Papandreou Pushing for National Unit ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars November 3, 2011 [download audio] [download video]
  • If Obama is Blocked by Reactionaries in Congre ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com November 2, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

  • 25,000 Europeans Will Die From Antibiotic Resi ...
    Is it just the beginning? This year, 25,000 people from the EU will will be fatally infected by untreatable infections. Several years ago the World Health Organization warned that the world risked returning to the pre-antibiotic era when infections did not respond to treatment. Apparently the wa ...
  • Moving? Consider the State Firearms Laws
    Guest post: by ‘Be informed’ So you are considering a new home to move to, or staying where you are at. The place for you seems like a good area, plenty of fresh air and clean water, away from the hazards of manmade and most natural disasters, good growing conditions, etc, etc. The q ...
  • 3 Tips For Crime Prevention While in Public
    Here are three survival (security) tips that are free, and won’t cost you anything. There is a caveat though, that is you may need to force a slight change in your behavior and habits. In today’s world of increasing economic woes, more individuals are turning towards criminal behavio ...
  • This Is What’s Wrong In America!
    How do you feel about the fact that GE (General Electric), an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, the 6th largest firm in the U.S. as well as the 14th most profitable, paid absolutely no taxes for 2010 ...
  • Camping Survival
    msb-note Modern Survival Blog welcomes CAMPING SURVIVAL, a 55 year veteran business providing a wide range of survival preparedness supplies including, MRE’s, Food supplies Paracord, Rope Stoves, Warmers Backpacks, Bags Books, Videos Apparel, Footwear Firestarters, Knives Radio, Compass Fl ...

Fast Company

  • Coca-Cola, Nexus Interactive Arts Unveil Digit ...
    The soft drink giant teams up with a top production studio to create an immersive experience so vivid you can practically taste it. Cascada means waterfall. But there's not a drop of H2O falling on visitors to the Cascada exhibit in Quito, Ecuador. The 52-foot-tall installation is part of an ...
  • 3 Proven Strategies To Keep The Internet From ...
    There’s a good chance you’re reading this article during your workday as a distraction from whatever it is you’re supposed to be focusing on at work right now. Whatever you were working on, which you still need to finish up, is likely open in another window. "It’s just a few-minute break. N ...
  • This Week In Bots: Some Pop, Some Lock, Some M ...
    Robot SnakeTintanoboa was a real snake, a prehistoric serpent of biblical proportions--it was over 50 feet long and some of them could weigh over a ton. Thankfully he's long extinct, but to demonstrate the scale and scariness of the beast, artist group eatArt from Vancouver are building a robot ...
  • How Silence Changes The Communication Dynamic
    Ever wonder what it would be like to remain quiet for an entire week? Not just less talking. I mean no talking. Total silence. It’s a bit scary, no? Well, I just completed such a week. I recently had throat surgery, and a week of total silence is what the doctor prescribed for convalescence. Pro ...
  • LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman On Groupon's Big Advan ...
    Fast Company is traveling with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman (above, center) as part of "Silicon Valley Comes to the UK" (SVC2UK) this week. In part two of our interview with him (part one is here), Hoffman talks about how big data is going to give Groupon a competitive advantage in ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Concise Idiot's Guide to the Egyptian Elec ...
    The Concise Idiot's Guide to the Egyptian Elections Egypt population: (est.) 85 million Citizens eligible to vote: (approx.) 50 million Parliamentary composition: bicameral The People’s Assembly: the lower house The Shura Council: upper consultative house   ...
  • Amr Hamzaway
    Amr Hamzawy Born in 1968, Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist and activist. He is the founder of the liberal Egypt Freedom Party, established in the aftermath of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution. Until February 2011, Hamzawy was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for ...
  • Amr Hamzawy
    Amr Hamzawy Born in 1968, Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist and activist. He is the founder of the liberal Egypt Freedom Party, established in the aftermath of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution. Until February 2011, Hamzawy was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment f ...
  • Osama Al-Ghazali Harb
    Osama Al-Ghazali Harb A veteran politician, Osama Al-Ghazali Harb, born in 1947, is one of the founders of Egypt’s liberal-leaning Democratic Front Party. After graduating from Cairo University’s faculty of economics and political science in 1969, he began his journalistic career worki ...
  • Mustafa Al-Naggar
    Mustafa Al-Naggar Mustafa Al-Naggar is former general coordinator of the campaign supporting presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei. After the January 25 Revolution, he helped form Al-Adl Party. Al-Naggar also runs the popular blog, “I am with them,” and, since 2007, has been actively ...

mediagazer

  • Occupy vs Tea Party: what their Twitter networ ...
    New Scientist: Occupy vs Tea Party: what their Twitter networks reveal  —  According to some political commentators, Occupy Wall Street is the left's answer to the Tea Party - driven by a similar anger towards elites.  But the social networks of people tweeting about the tw ...
  • Wenner Media Digital Boss Michael Bloom Leaves ...
    Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Wenner Media Digital Boss Michael Bloom Leaves After Six Months  —  Wenner Media's chief digital officer is out after six months.  —  Michael Bloom joined the publisher, which owns Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, and Men's Journal, in May.&nbs ...
  • Netflix to resurrect Arrested Development in 2 ...
    Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: Netflix to resurrect Arrested Development in 2013 as part of content play  —  In a serious content play, Netflix has announced that it is bringing the wildly popular show Arrested Development back exclusively on its platform.  —  The ...
  • 200+ Labels Withdraw Their Music From Spotify: ...
    Duncan Geere / Wired.com: 200+ Labels Withdraw Their Music From Spotify: Are Its Fortunes Unravelling?  —  Following a study that claims that streaming music is damaging to record sales, a distributor representing more than 200 labels has withdrawn its entire catalogue from Spot ...
  • Key NBC executive Marc Graboff to leave the ne ...
    Meg James / Company Town: Key NBC executive Marc Graboff to leave the network  —  Marc Graboff, president of NBC's West Coast business operations and the TV network's longtime consigliere, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the situation.  —&nbs ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Abhishek Bachchan: 'Aishwarya is like the ...
    Abhishek Bachchan has said that he can't wait to bring his newborn daughter and wife Aishwarya Rai home....
  • Anil Kapoor to host party for Tom Cruise ...
    Anil Kapoor will host a party for Tom Cruise during his two-day visit to Mumbai. Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and...
  • 'Gaddafi's son captured' in Libya
    Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured, Libya's interim justice minister is reported to have said. The...
  • Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger rules out J ...
    Frenchman feels he has quality in defence following the signings of Andre Santos and Per Mertesacker and says the Trotters were greedy in negotiations for the England player Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Norwich City £50.00 Draw £38.00 Arsenal £16. ...
  • Gonzalo Higuain to score and three tips f ...
    La Liga's big game this weekend is at the Mestalla where Los Blancos are aiming to keep their impressive winning form running against a resurgent Los Che By Ed Malyon Tweet 1 Comments More On : Real Madrid, Valencia, Gonzalo Higuaín Getty Images Match Odds; Valencia 5.50, Draw 3.75, Real Ma ...

no frakking consensus

  • Rajendra Pachauri – The Little Man Who T ...
    Some IPCC personnel aren't chosen for their impressive track records. Not even close.
  • News & Reviews
    At the end of 2011 Treehugger.com continues to portray IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri as a saint.
  • The IPCC’s Fake Review Editor
    A person who "played no role whatsoever" in an IPCC chapter nevertheless signed a statement that claimed otherwise.
  • A Dark Day in Australia
    Two thirds of Australians opposed the carbon tax that has just been passed, but Al Gore says this legislation is a victory for the Australian people.
  • How to Spot a Delinquent Teenager
    Delinquent teenagers never take responsibility for their own actions. After they've set fire to the the neighbour's sofa they insist the real issue is that the cops got the time slightly wrong.

Anna's News

  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 11/18/11 - What is the Stop Trading on Congres ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - NEW: What is the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act? - It currently remains legal for members of Congress to buy and sell stocks based on information they gain on the job. The STOCK Act would prohibit members of Congress and federal employees from pr ...
  • 11/16/11 - 100 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - UPDATED: 100 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana - What does the scientific literature say about the medical benefits or dangers of marijuana? Our chart of 100 studies on medical marijuana shows results from 22 double-blind human peer-reviewed studies, 74 human peer- ...
  • 11/16/11 - Candidate Speeches
    2012election.procon.org - NEW: Candidate Speeches - Read transcripts of 25 campaign speeches from the nine Republican presidential candidates and incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama. We'll add many more speech transcripts over the coming weeks and months.
  • 11/14/11 - Should churches (defined as churche ...
    churchesandtaxes.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? - US churches have been exempt from paying income and property taxes since the country's founding. Debate continues over whether or not these tax b ...
  • 11/10/11 - ProCon.org has now been used by ove ...
    www.procon.org - ProCon.org has now been used by over 2,000 schools in all 50 states and 38 countries. See our list of 2,012 schools along with the related lesson plans, resource lists, and other curricula where ProCon.org appears. Teachers and librarians, if your school is not already on the li ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Autism meets geeks
    Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn’t there. Lizzie Buchen In the opening scene of The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg portrays a cold Mark Zuckerberg getting dumped by his girlf ...
  • DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
    Andrew Hussey One of the most important facts about Michel Houellebecq – usually overlooked in favour of his nihilism, alleged racism and other attention-seeking provocations – is that he is a first-rate prose stylist. This is not quite enough, however, to make him a good novelist. E ...
  • Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein
    Human serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood. Lauren Gravitz of Nature magazine One can’t squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood–or at least blood protein–f ...
  • Women serve alongside Special Forces
    Kevin Maurer The medics helped Sgt. Janiece Marquez into a chair and started to treat her sprained ankle. Marquez, 25, had tripped over a rock on one of the dark paths in the camp. She had just run two miles during the physical fitness test and marched at least six miles carrying a 35-pound ruck ...
  • Why We Can’t Tell Good Wine From Bad
    David McRaney The Misconception: Wine is a complicated elixir, full of subtle flavors only an expert can truly distinguish, and experienced tasters are impervious to deception. The Truth: Wine experts and consumers can be fooled by altering their expectations. You scan the aisles in the liquor s ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • An African science base: what would it take fo ...
    From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...
  • 7 billion: can we count on it?
    FROM ROBERT STIFF IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On 31st October 2011 the world population is projected to reach a landmark 7 billion people, according to UN estimates. A great deal of debate has surrounded the importance of this figure and what it means for the planet and its many inhabitants. Th ...
  • Research careers – opening the discussion
    FROM LAURA DAWSON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Wednesday 26 October, the Royal Society’s President, Paul Nurse, and the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, hosted a roundtable discussion on research careers. The aim of the meeting was to start a discussion on the issues tha ...
  • UK – world leader. But can it last?
    FROM LAURA DAWSON, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Hot on the heels of last week’s 2011 National SET statistics (our friends at the Campaign for Science and Engineering and RCUK have already offered their highlights), today sees the launch of the BIS commissioned report, ‘International Comparative Perform ...
  • Costs and Benefits of Open Data – Professor An ...
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE During the latest evidence session for the Science as a Public Enterprise project, we had the opportunity to speak to some leading experts working on open data in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, and e-Research. Dr. Anthony Holloway, Dr. Sarah ...

NAU Resistance

  • U.S. Halts Inspection Of Buses And Trains Ente ...
    “An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical – is not sovereign“ By: NAURESISTANCE A recent CTV News/The Associated Press article dated 28th October 2011, reports on a radical policy shift being implemented along the Canada-U.S. border. This announce ...
  • The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
    Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.
  • Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign ...
    "While in the past Canada has exercised a more independent foreign policy, in many ways, it has now succumbed to the imperialistic aspirations of the U.S. and NATO"- Dana Gabriel
  • THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF SOVEREIGNTY
    "An organism which cannot control its borders -- whether economic or physical -- is not sovereign"
  • U.S. Considers Installing A Fence Along Canada ...
    “When you get their security agencies just going off on this kind of a tangent ... well, quite frankly, it just makes me angry,” -NDP Justice Critic

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Spread the word: Occupy Building 7 Next Weekend
    November 19 and 20, 2011. In front of the rebuilt World Trade Center Building 7. DEMAND an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 and the Twin Towers September 11, 2001 - the The United States was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in ou ...
  • The Green Wave by Joanne Nova
  • Welcome to a “Hung” Democracy
    And so it came to pass that a small band of the selfish or deluded came to steal the blood, sweat and toil of the many. They lied, broke solemn promises, failed to provide evidence, and displayed a singular lack of good-manners. They viciously insulted anyone who disagreed, they hid the models ...
  • The political sacrifice of Schapelle Corby
      SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: "album-12", width: 550, height: 400 }, mobile: { auto: false }, params: { bgcolor: "#000000", allowfullscreen: true }, flashvars: { xmlFilePath: "http://www.truthnews.com.au/slideshowpro/images.php?album=12" } }); ...
  • The “Spirit of Australia” grounds ...
    The company that advertises itself as the "Spirit of Australia" has turned on its own customers, causing untold suffering and stress to thousands of travellers around the world. Tonight John Bursill returns to TNRA  to report on the unfolding disaster at Qantas, which has grounded its entir ...

Beacon

  • Outside Mag: ‘Give Adventurously’ to Oceana
    Outside Magazine’s December issue is out, and they have a feature on “The Year of Giving Adventurously” – guess who’s included? The editors selected the 30 best organizations to give to this holiday season —“smartly managed groups with transparent financials, efficient spending, and track rec ...
  • Video: Underwater Teaser from Chile
    Earlier this year, Oceana and National Geographic completed an expedition to Sala y Gómez Island, an uninhabited Chilean island near Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. It was a follow-up to our first journey in October 2010, which was instrumental in the creation of a no-take marine reserve of ...
  • Thursday Trivia: West Indian Manatee
    A manatee takes a rest from its exhausting feeding routine. © Oceana/Carlos Minguell When Christopher Columbus first saw a West Indian manatee, he thought it was a mermaid – you can decide for yourself if the comparison is apt. November is Manatee Awareness Month in Florida, so this week we’ ...
  • Breaking: FL Protects Tiger and Hammerhead Sharks
    Hammerhead shark. [Image via Wikimedia Commons] I’m sitting in the meeting of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission down in Key Largo, and I have great news: A decision has just been made to protect tiger sharks and three species of hammerhead sharks in state waters. The new ...
  • Oceana Unveils New Oil Spill Map
    Have you ever wondered just how common oil spills are? Prepare to have your socks knocked off. Oceana and SkyTruth have partnered to launch a new online oil spill tracking tool, which maps oil spill reports from the National Response Center. Considering there are a couple dozen reports from ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Russians Made 6,000,000 PPSh-41 Submachine ...
      The PPSH 41 was a submachine gun designed by George Shpagin for the Russian military during WWII. This was a classic Soviet design infused with the user in mind. The user is likely to be illiterate and poor and not necessarily someone who has even worked around machine industries. It was ...
  • Beware Object 279.
    At the outset of the Cold War, weapons designers were hard at work on both sides of the Berlin Wall seeking to stay ahead of the other side in case total war did in fact break out. One of the big ideas in Russia was the survivability of tanks on the battlefield in light of [...]
  • Thomas Jefferson On Wall Street
    .   I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] wi ...
  • The Rise Of Anti-Semitism In Modern Europe.
      In Europe, there has been a significant rise in anti Semitism in the last decade. The rise itself is remarkable for a few reasons, not the least of which is that the rise is significant, and that the United States news media has been asleep at the wheel. I know that it comes as [...]
  • Alaric.
    August 23rd 410 AD. Alaric The Goth is at the gates of Rome. Tomorrow, the world will end. Rome at this time had for 800 years represented the highest ideals of Western Civilization. They had cities and taxation systems, and international trade and shipping and manufacturing  and coliseums and r ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Dash of Dan: Pumpkin Rice Pudding
    The first time I made rice pudding, it was a disaster. It was too thick, I’m sure I burned some rice, and it was pretty much inedible. Fast forward to today…..and I’ve made a wonderful, creamy and rich fall inspired dessert. (This would be great prepared ahead of time for Thank ...
  • I am Not A Lobbyist Becoming Newt Campaign Refrain
    It’s reminiscent of Nixon’s “I am not a crook” line, coming from an equally offensive man, though Nixon was far more cunning. Then why did companies in the health care industry pay Mr. Gingrich’s think tank over $37 million? Or what was that word the Post used, coll ...
  • Now what, Occupy?
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Prior to the Day of Action I read and heard quite a few speculations that it would be a bust. Not many people would show up. Occupy was done, was old news. It had, as one person put it, “worn out its welcome,” though ...
  • Woman Gets Prison Over Food Stamp Fraud
    From Matt Taibbi: Last week, a federal judge in Mississippi sentenced a mother of two named Anita McLemore to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application in order to obtain food stamps. – Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts This ...
  • Sarah Palin Occupies Congress in Today’s Wall ...
    One of Sarah Palin’s “foreign policy advisers” is Peter Schweizer, author of the new book, “Throw Them All Out.” She cites him in the first paragraph of her Wall Street Journal op-ed today on, of all things, Occupy. However, the title is very misleading: How Congres ...

Hudson New York

  • And the Winner is - Hamas!
    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal are scheduled to meet in Cairo next week to discuss ways of ending the power struggle between their two parties and the formation of a Palestinian unity government. The talks
  • Syria Tortures Children
    The Syrian regime is not even sparing the lives of innocent children. T the Saudi-owned newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat, reported in October that 186 children have been killed since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution on March 15. The youngest Syrian child
  • BDP Recruiting for PKK, Erdogan Says
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stepped up a verbal onslaught on the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, charging that its members have been instrumental in the recruitment of militants for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. "BDP
  • Sweden's New Anti-Semites
    Police in Sweden's third-largest city, Malmö, are reporting a significant uptick in the number of reported anti-Semitic hate-crimes this year. During just the first six months of 2011, Malmö police registered 21 anti-Semitic crimes, more than the total
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2011
    Egypt's Maspero massacre—where the military killed dozens of Christians protesting the destruction of their churches—dominates October's persecution headlines. Facts and details concerning the military's "crimes against humanity" are documented in this

Urban Survival

  • A Check of the REAL Economy
    (Las Cruces, NM)  If you want a really quick check of how the economy is going all you need to do is keep in touch with people who make the economy “happen”.  People like longshoremen, long distance truckers, oilmen, and … Continue reading →
  • Coping: “Half Around America” Begins
    Our “Half Around America Trip” got off to a great start on Thursday after waiting around fogged in for the first couple of days.  We had it as far west as Las Cruces, NM where we spent the night and … Continue reading →
  • Other Shoes, Droppings, and Such
    In our Peoplenomics report yesterday morning, posted about 2-hours before the US markets opened, I explained how using “Ure’s Semi-Constant” I expected a market drop of “about 200 points” – and while not  a direct hit, an actual landing within … Con ...
  • Coping: Dancing with Dew Points
    Can we leave today?  On our second day of our soon to become legendary “Half Around America” tour in our old beater of an airplane (which has two redeeming factors:  low operating costs and it’s paid for…) we got only … Continue reading →
  • A Wednesday "Wedgie"?
    Had a note from Robin Handler of the Options Signal Service and he is a little concerned that there’s a big triangle forming in the charts (here) which could lead to a violent break up, or down, later on today.  … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • THE BILDERBERG GROUP
    Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a small and select group of people that control the world. When you are first confronted with this prospect your initial thoughts may be to dismiss this claim as another one of those conspiracy theories; but if you probe further, you are likely ...
  • DEAD AND STILL DYING
    I’m dying slowly. Each day I can feel my end slowly approaching, and I will never know when that end truly is. All I know is that there is one. One day the essence I call life will cease to exist, and even now it slowly fades away before my eyes. It is difficult to hide [...]
  • SEXUAL INCOMPATIBILITY – By: Femi Job
    The topic being addressed is a very controversial topic for adults. I ask that you tell the kids to go to their rooms, and if you are a kid, you need to leave this page. Let us wait for about 2 minutes before we read on (to allow the kids to leave this page). While [...]
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘Dutiful Husband’ & ...
      Elsie had been in a bad mood all week. Geoff had noticed, so he thought he would do the dutiful husband thing. On Friday he left work unusually early, and bought a huge bouquet of red roses. As he came out of the flower shop and crossed the road, he saw the man with [...]
  • WHY DO ROYAL FAMILIES EXIST?
    What does a family need to do to become royal? I mean, aren’t they just an expensive welfare family? Let’s face it, I would be in a royal family too if the rest of society was paying for my upkeep. Don’t worry about it, ill buy a crown and put some jewels on it, ill [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Activists and renegade MIT hacker indicted fo ...
    My local paper has the scoop on Aaron Swartz. A Cambridge man has been indicted on charges of breaking and entering, larceny of electronic data, and unauthorized access to a computer network in connection with the illicit downloading of millions of academic articles, Middlesex District Attorney ...
  • Who needs a PR team? TV news hypes Brigham ste ...
    Researchers, including a team from The Brigham and Women's Hosptial, got some help hyping a very preliminary study on cardiac stem cells presented at the ongoing American Heart Association Meeting. As we suggested earlier this week, see CardioBrief for sensible reporting on this story and othe ...
  • Can the Terriers top Harvard in the lab to win ...
    In the opening scene of the movie "The Social Network," the Mark Zuckerberg character tell his soon-to-be-ex girlfriend that she doesn't need to get home to study. Why? You go to BU, the socially-inept Harvard lad tells her. My BU class rolled their eyes when we watched that scene in a sessio ...
  • Tracking Boston research at the ongoing heart ...
    CardioBrief offers reliable reporting from the American Heart Association meeting. This morning's tweet @cardiobrief: One thought about MI FREEE: We can't even give away life-saving drugs away for free! Here is the report on medication compliance and free samples released today from Brigha ...
  • Energy talks at MIT range from pronuke to anti ...
    At MIT, energy research tends to be industry friendly, and a talk on Monday promises to be no exception Prof. Richard Lester, Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, will be promoting his new book on energy innovation. Lester is a strong advocate of nuclear power as one of the ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC's Report Shows that Green Infrastructure ...
    Noah Garrison, Project Attorney, Santa Monica This past week, NRDC released a new report called Rooftops to Rivers II: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer Overflows. The report discusses the considerable problem that storm ...
  • India Environmental News Compilation, November ...
    Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Obama asks India, China to wisen up on climate goals “US President Barack Obama on Wednesday tried to make emerging economies like India accou ...
  • Dynamic Transportation Leaders Are Transformin ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Last week I finally had the chance to stroll down Broadway in New York City, including a visit to the Times Square Toys R Us that actually has an indoor ferris wheel (Note to sel ...
  • UN Report: More "Extreme" Bad Weather Coming,' ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York More extreme weather events—heat waves, floods, drought—are coming our way this century, and there is new evidence that links these extreme events to climate change, according ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile At long last, The Council for Electricity Development has announced their final proposals for Chile’s new energy plan. This 200-page proposal will allow the government to compose a ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, November 18, 2011: UC Davis CA cop is caught on video taunting a crowd of protesters by showing off a pepperspray canister before slowly dousing protesters sitting on ground with it ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, November 18, 2011: New York NY police accused of using excessive force & attacking journalists during the latest #OWS demonstration. There were more than one incident involved ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 2 Albuquerque NM cops were fired after a video showed them beating and kicking a man while holding him down, then apparently celebrating with a chest bump afte ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, November 15, 2011: US Customs & Border Protection officer in Texas has been sentenced to 25yrs in prison after convicted for murder when he shot a bar owner to death after he wa ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the ~15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, November 14, 2011: Several chaotic reports out of New York NY related to the police raid on #OccupyWallStreet. So far the credible reports include allegations that the police forci ...

Total Collapse

  • Pentagon successfully tests Advanced Hypersoni ...
    THE Pentagon has successfully tested a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. Launched by rocket from Hawaii, the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon,” or AHW, glided thr ...
  • Get ready for extreme weather says IPCC
    Top climate scientists have warned the world’s political leaders to get ready for more dangerous and “unprecedented extreme weather” caused by global warming. The group of scientists said making preparations will save lives and money otherwise weather extremes may overwhelm som ...
  • Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam is arrested
    Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, has been captured in a firefight in the Libyan desert, senior Libyan military commanders said Saturday. Saif al-Islam was caught by revolutionary fighters after 15 days of pursuit in the area between the southwestern oasis to ...
  • Russia sends warships to Syrian waters
    Russia is sending its warships to Syrian waters in a move aimed at preventing any foreign attacks against Syrian territories. According to Russian sources, the recent move conveys the message that Moscow will block any NATO-led attack under the guise of “humanitarian intervention,” The Nation re ...
  • Goldman Sachs Conquers Europe
    The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count. By replacing the scandal-surfing Silvio Berlusconi, Italy has dislodged the undislodgeable. By imposing rule by unelected technocrats, it has suspended the normal rules of ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a false ...
    Media Release 18 Nov 11 WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a falsehood in relation to BZE. WorleyParsons state in their media release dated 10 November 2011: "Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) engaged Worley Parsons to prepare a report to analyse the life cycle GHG emissions for Australian gas co ...
  • Serious About Solar
    Sophie McCallum of The Transcontinental reports, November 16: Alinta Energy is seriously exploring the idea of converting its Port Augusta power stations into solar thermal facilities. Solar thermal was first proposed by renewable energy advocates, Beyond Zero Emissions and has already gained ...
  • Take Action - Support a Zero Carbon Australia
    Take action now 2011 has been a big year for all of us at Beyond Zero Emissions.  While continuing to spread the word on our 100 percent renewable vision, we have started researching zero emissions alternatives to the sectors of transport, land use and buildings. This ground-breaking Zero ...
  • TRANSCRIPT - Radio National: Coal seam gas rep ...
    TRANSCRIPT - Radio National Breakfast: Coal Seam Gas Report 'Suppressed' November 14, 2011 Fran Kelly- It’s been hailed as the low carbon fuel to help us transition to a clean energy future, but in recent months, some have started to question the climate credentials of the so called ‘unconventi ...
  • Stateline South Australia: Port Augusta looks ...
    ABC's Stateline South Australia reports on the Beyond Zero Emissions proposal to replace the Northern and Playford coal power plants with Concentrating Solar Themral power. WATCH THE REPORT Beyond Zero Emissions Strategic Director Mark Ogge in Port Augusta with the Playford B coal power plant i ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Picture: Baby penguins get cozy
    A picture of a pair of chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Park Zoo.
  • Cultural erosion among indigenous groups in Ve ...
    One of the planet's most beautiful landscapes is in danger. Deep in southern Venezuela, among ancient forested tabletop mountains known as tepuis, crystalline rivers, and breathtaking waterfalls, outside influences — malaria, the high price of gold, commercial hunting, and cultural erosion ...
  • Indigenous technicians scour Amazonia to help ...
    Scientists only have so many hands and eyes. That’s why ecologists enlisted hundreds of Makushi and Wapishana villagers to record the sights and signs of animals across 48,000 square kilometers of the Amazon basin near the Brazil-Guyana border. In the ongoing project, scientists seek to de ...
  • US reduces catch limit of 'most important fish ...
    The Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) has slashed the allowable catch of a tiny fish named menhaden by 37 percent by 2013. Dubbed the 'most important fish in the sea' by author H. Bruce Franklin, the menhaden plays a critical role in marine ecosystems as a food source for larger ...
  • Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Sea ...
    Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...

Sierra Express

  • Blatter the blubber bleats again
    Sepp Blatter, the President of FIFA, the World governing body has put his foot in it again; this time telling CNN in an interview that “ there is no racism (on the field), but maybe there is a word or gesture that is not correct”.  He should have been putting a sock in it.  If [...]
  • 15 Sierra Leone pilgrims depart Saudi Arabia
    Fifteen Sierra Leone pilgrims left the King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, in the early hours of Saturday, 19th November, 2011, after successful performance of their Hajj rituals a few days ago.  (Photo: Excited Sierra Leone pilgrims  after completion of Hajj rituals) They are expected ...
  • Moving maritime administration a step further
    About two years ago, I wrote an article on what was happening at the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration from the viewpoint of inadequacies in the administrative setup of the institution to corrupt practices that were taking place there then.  There was lack of coordination, there was no proper ...
  • Shortlist revealed for BBC award
    The five candidates for the 2011 BBC African Footballer of the Year award have been revealed on the BBC’s Sport Today programme.  (Photo: Ayew, Eto’o, Gervinho, Keita and Toure are up for the for the 2011 BBC African Footballer of the Year award) The Ivorian pair of Yaya Toure and Ge ...
  • Notice of vacant position(s): TRAIN ASSISTANT ...
    African Minerals (SL) Ltd is inviting applications from interested candidates for the position of Train Assistant Driver x 27 This position is open to qualified Sierra Leoneans, and women in particular are encouraged to apply. The deadline for all applications is 25th November, 2011. This role w ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Asparagus growing under threat
    Asparagus could become unaffordable and hard to come by within just a few years if the expansion of dairy farms continues at its present rate.The antioxidant-rich superfood was down to $2.50 a bunch at most grocery stores last week,...
  • Fonterra's change of guard
    Australasia's highest paid bank executive, Sir Ralph Norris, will become a director of dairy giant Fonterra, while its chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden plans to step down after more than a decade on the board.New Zealander Norris...
  • Van der Heyden to step down as Fonterra chair, ...
    Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden is to step down next year after a decade in the job and the cooperative has tapped Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris to join the board.Van der Heyden will step down...
  • Mixed opinions over land sales
    Publicity over Chinese company moves to buy New Zealand dairy farms continues to divide business. One-third of respondents to the Herald CEOs' survey are against the move.The issue raised its head when the May Wang - who is now...
  • Dairy price rise 'a sign of stability'
    A rise in international dairy prices in Fonterra's latest online auction is a sign of stability in an increasingly shaky world, says BNZ economist Doug Steel.The average price for a basket of products in the latest auction rose...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk rallies across Canada this Wednesday ...
    Here is the list of raw milk rallies planned for November 23rd, all across Canada. Perhaps one of them is in your neck of the woods: November 23rd in BC – Nadine Ijaz and Jan Steinman are doing a rally at … Continue reading →
  • “People’s milk” under threat ...
    From 3Wheeled Cheese, translated from Grain.org: Milk is an essential source of health and income for the people. The popular, or people’s, milk chain, independent, counts on local vendors who collect the milk from the small producers, owners of a … Continue reading →
  • What is this monster called raw milk?
    From Peter Niepel (from New Zealand) on “Milk Me”:  “Not that long ago nobody did actually know the expression “Raw Milk” because all milk was raw milk. That was before the 1940ies when pasteurisation wasn’t that common. And people survived drinking … Continue reading →
  • The astonishing story of raw milk
    From Ann Mendelson, on the Mother Earth News: “Once upon a time, cows supplied us with delicious whole milk, wonderful fresh cream, skim milk fit to drink, refreshing soured skim milk, nutrient-rich curd and whey, truly lovely butter and real buttermilk. … Continue reading →
  • Could THIS be the REAL cause of recent E.coli ...
    From Bill Marler’s “Food Safety News” blog:  “Ready Pac Foods of Irwindale, CA is recalling 5,379 cases of bagged romaine salad products, including Caesar salad kits, because they may be contaminated with E. coli. The romaine lettuce was packaged under … Continue re ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Greek "Unity Government" Effectively Collapsed ...
    The very instant the Greek "Unity Government" formed it was divided. Antonis Samaras, the leader of Greece’s New Democracy Party, one of the three coalition parties that formed the government says he will not sign a document demanded by the IMF before it will release the next tranche. That' ...
  • Interview with Kyle Bass on Gold, Hugely Profi ...
    The BBC has an excellent interview with Kyle Bass - Founder, Hayman Capital Hedge Fund on Europe, mortgages, monetary printing, "gold and guns" and Japan. At times the interviewer is openly hostile to Bass, blaming him for making money on the US mortgage mess, then again when Greece blew up ...
  • Spanish Banks Stuck with ‘Unsellable’ Real Est ...
    Explaining the recent selloff in Spanish bonds is easy: The bond market has finally come to grips with the idea there is no solution for Spain's massive structural problems. Here is a trio of articles to show what I mean. Spanish Banks Stuck ‘Unsellable’ Real Estate, 50% of Real Estate Loan ...
  • EU Bans Claim "Drinking Water Can Prevent Dehy ...
    In a 3-year study, EU concluded there is no evidence that drinking water can cure dehydration and has banned bottles from stating that claim. Previously, EU officials banned the selling of overly bent bananas and curved cucumbers but backed off after international ridicule. Yes, I am seriou ...
  • Leading Indicators or Statistical Noise?
    Inquiring minds are digging into the touted numbers of the day, the conference board index of leading indicators. Index of Leading Indicators Leading Indicator ContributionMayJuneJulyAugSepOct Average Weekly Hours Manufacturing+.00+.00+.00-.07+.00+.13 Average Weekly Initial Claims+.0 ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan, DOD Sued Over Theft of Private Info about almost 5 Million Soldiers, Police State: Feds: ‘States Have no Rights’, Pepe Escobar: The US Power Grab in Africa, Chris Floyd: Family Values- The Roman Rigor of Obama’s Death Squads ...
  • The EyeOpener- CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: ...
    The Business of Arming the Nation’s Enemies The AQ Khan nuclear network was first introduced to the public in early 2004, with Abdul Qadeer Khan’s dramatic televised confession to the Pakistani public that he had participated in selling nuclear technology, including bomb-making designs and ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Police State: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops, Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime, Two Teenagers among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill, Police State: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security, Lies Behind the “Humanitaria ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman-Chicago: The Cit ...
    Burrowing Into Some Rabbit Holes Chicago has a lot of strengths, along with a deserved, well, reputation. The City of Big Shoulders?  Perhaps.  But legal and illegal corruption have long greased the wheels in the City That Works.  Chicago is joined at the hip with the State of Illinois, with no ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines, Police State: FBI’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire, Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300, Covert Operative for Israe ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

Blogging Canadians

  • NGDP targeting: wither monetarism?
    Monetarism is like a Zombie: it can be found theoretically wanting, empirically false and technically infeasible but in one form or another it just soldiers on.  In some ways the hype surrounding the conversation about the possibility of moving from … Continue reading →
  • RPPE going ORG
    We will be transitioning to our own domain name and hosting services over the next couple of weeks thanks to some outside donations. We should have done this earlier. Thanks to all our readers and the great support. Filed under: … Continue reading →
  • City Of Regina Makes History With Raising Of M ...
    REGINA — The City of Regina makes history once again. “We may be the first city to do it, but it wasn’t about us it was about the recognition of our Metis people,” said Mayor Pat Fiacco. On Tuesday, the Metis flag was raised in the courtyard of city hall where it’s to become a permanent fixtur ...
  • Social Contract And The "Occupation" Movement
    Here's an interesting rebuttal to the "99-percenters" and their claims that they somehow have a share in business people's income: H/t SoCon or Bust Also check out this video interview - Ezra Levant discusses the hypocrisy of the "occupation" movement with Andrew Breitbart. The statistics and ...
  • Video: Right To Life Debate At University Of O ...
    What happens when pro-aborts don't chant or heckle or find some other way to drown out the pro-life speaker? They lose the debate. The recent debate on whether physicians should provide or refer for abortion, which took place last week at the University of Ottawa, proves just that. Here's the v ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israel confiscates more Palestinian land
    Israel has systematically confiscated some 375 acres of Palestinian land in the al-Aghwar area northeast of the Jordan Valley and given it to Israeli settlers, Press TV reports.
  • Pro-regime thugs attack Bahrainis
    Bahraini pro-regime thugs have attacked and injured several peaceful anti-government protesters who were rallying against the US-backed Al Khalifa dynasty on the island of Sitra.
  • 'UK in secret talks with Syrian rebels'
    Senior British officials, including Foreign Secretary William Hague, are set to formally meet with Syrian rebels in London next week, a new report has revealed.
  • Saudis protest brutality of regime forces
    Anti-government protesters in the eastern Saudi Arabian town of Awamiyah have staged a protest against the brutality of security forces, which resulted in the injury of a boy, Press TV reports.
  • Israel threat to global security: Poll
    A recent survey indicates that the majority of European people believe Israel is the most serious threat to global security, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
  • What’s Your Story?
    I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]
  • Network Like a Pro
    I recently attended an SPS Career Services workshop and networking seminar lead by career expert Arlene Newman. Newman is the President of Career Bound Success and has an extensive background in Human Resources across multiple industries. Newman emphasized the importance of networking in career ...
  • Satire and Humor?
    With all the mayhem that’s been going on in Washington, D.C. and across the United States, you’d think politicos would use some measure of wisdom.  I’ve been reading articles, watching news reports and tweeting stories, which I feel has some semblance, contrary to all the madne ...
  • Following the Brand
    Whenever I’m in Chelsea, I feel compelled to casually walk by the Alexander McQueen store and glance in the window. There’s always something in the window that catches my eye. It’s usually a fantastic design, bold colors, and unusual silhouette, or an extreme use of ruffles, rosettes or ruching. ...

Dissident Voice

  • Liars as Friends
    Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “This morning we reminded the Israeli ambassador how much we deplore the consequences of this raid for the head of our consulate and his family,” French Foreign Ministr ...
  • Exiled Mexican Labor Leader Honored by AFL-CIO
    On November 16, Napolean Gomez Urrutia, General Secretary of the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalurgicos y Similares de las Republica Mexicana (National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of the Mexican Republic), commonly known as “Los Mineros,” received the AFL-CIO ...
  • Transcontinental Occupation: Transcontinental ...
    Like most other social justice activists I know, I have been following (and taking part in) the Occupy Wall Street movement. The encampment in Burlington, VT was in City Hall Park in Burlington’s downtown district for over two weeks. After a tragic suicide in the encampment, the Progressiv ...
  • The New Realism: Reflections on the Voyage of ...
    To transcend without transcending — Ernst Bloch In the 20thCentury, real socialism failed. In the 21st Century, unreal capitalism. — Luis Eduardo Aute In those heady early days of the Oakland Commune when the little village of newly-dubbed “Oscar Grant Plaza” was being set up, an old comrade who ...
  • A Global Revolution
    What began in Tunisia and was dubbed an Arab Spring has spread to the rest of the world, seemingly for different reasons in different places but slowly becoming one vast movement toward democracy and the political economic transformation necessary for humanity’s survival. But while this hopeful ...

Destructionist

  • European Central Bank Riots Begin in Italy as ...
    On his first day in office, the bankster prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, told Italians they can expect to be rolled by the ECB banksters.
  • Russian Warships Enter Syrian Waters To Preven ...
    Russian warships have entered Syrian territorial waters in an aggressive move designed to prevent any NATO-led attack on the country under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention”.
  • The Occupy Movement Is Protesting the SAME THI ...
    Washington’s Blog November 18, 2011 I noted yesterday: The Founding Fathers hated big corporations. See this, this and this. They were as suspicious of big corporations as they were the monarchy. So they only allowed corporate charters for a very brief duration, in order to carry out ...
  • Thousands Occupy Wall Street: All Entry Points ...
    Thousands marched on Wall Street this morning, blockading all entry points to the New York Stock Exchange. 'People's mics' have been breaking out at barricades, with participants sharing stories of struggling in an unfair economy. "I paid taxes and took care of my responsibility, and I'm stru ...
  • OWS video: NYPD arrest Philly police retired c ...
    As NYPD arrested Philly police retired captain Raymond Lewis at OWS protest, crowds were cheering. It comes as peaceful Occupy Wall Street protest has turned violent yet again. RT correspondents on the ground report that police have begun to arrest people brutally in Manhattan. RT producer Lucy ...

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      Water is the lifeblood of this planet, whose inhabitants are watching its accelerated spiral into crisis mode even as they struggle to address the issues and lifestyles that are stretching the earth's resources thin.
    • KYRGYZSTAN: Bishkek Struggling to Find Right E ...
      In a small office on the second floor of the Kyrgyzstan Stock Exchange, a lone administrator checked the time and looked up from the computer: "Two o'clock. No applications received. Auction for sale of Zalkar Bank is declared invalid."
    • Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamb ...
      A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a nuclear weapon and carry out a simulated nuclear explosion.
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      A new model of making development assistance more successful is expected to emerge at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), to be held Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 in Busan, Korea.
    • INDIA: Dangers of a Lax Nuclear Strategy
      On August 26, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan resigned, taking responsibility for the disastrous meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was caused by the March 2011 undersea earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Iran raps IAEA for divulging names
      Summary: The Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has denounced the nuclear supervisory body for publicizing the names of Iran's nuclear scientists, Press TV reports. source: PressTVread more
    • Iran formally protests against IAEA Director-G ...
      Summary: "The Director General is highly expected to submit factual reports reflecting comprehensively the developments related to safeguards verification since his previous reports. The Director General shall not politicize the technical organization, IAEA, by bias and selective approach con ...
    • IRAN, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE GEOPOLITICS O ...
      Summary: As a senior Japanese diplomat put it to us recently, the United States is really only committed to ensuring the free flow of Saudi oil to international markets. This suggests that America is only interested in providing the “public good” of energy security in ways that fit with its ...
    • Rep. Sherman: Iranian People Must Suffer
      Summary: Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) proposed additional economic sanctions on Iran on Thursday aimed at crippling the country’s central bank and stifling the Iranian economy. One of the bill’s top supporters, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), said, “Critics [of the sanctions] argued that these meas ...
    • Why the West is Demonizing Iran
      Summary: MossadeghDavid Cameron (b. 1966) wasn’t even a twinkle in his father’s eye when Britain crushed Iran’s democracy, and was probably carousing with his Bullingdon Club pals at Oxford while Iranians were dying in their thousands from Saddam’s poison gases. What does he know? Obama (b. ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Epic Alien Storm on Saturn -- Captured by Cass ...
      "This new storm is a completely different kind of beast compared to anything we saw on Saturn previously with Cassini. The fact that such outbursts are episodic and keep happening on Saturn every 20 to 30 years or so is...
    • Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Prediction in Cyg ...
      Over three decades ago, Stephen Hawking placed -- and eventually lost – a bet against the existence of a black hole in Cygnus X-1, the first X-ray source widely accepted to be a black hole candidate. The object was a...
    • Galaxy's Magnetic Fields Revealed to be Key to ...
      Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first time, measured the alignment of magnetic fields in gigantic clouds of gas and dust in the Triangulum Galaxy M33, which presented the astronomers with a bird’s eye view...
    • Earth's 65-Million-Year Inflection Point: Mass ...
      A one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and extraterrestrial imapcts likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, according to two Princeton University reports that...
    • Image of the Day: The Water Domes of Jupiter's ...
      Jupiter's icy moon Europa is pockmarked by mysterious domes and depressions that now seem to be areas where liquid water once appeared close to the surface. Thera Macula is one such region of likely active chaos production above a large...

    Natural News

    • Occupy GMOs: Protesters block access to manufa ...
      (NaturalNews) Tired of the quiet import and use of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in the animal food supply throughout Europe, a group of protesters in France has decided to make a statement by blockading the entrances of the Glon Sanders animal feed plant in Saint-Gerard, Morbihan, Franc ...
    • Saying no: Sheriffs fed up with worsening fede ...
      (NaturalNews) Adding a new wrinkle to the phrase, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not taking it anymore," several California sheriffs, as well as one from Oregon, say they aren't cow-towing to the federal leviathan anymore. Last month, at the Yreka fairgrounds in northern California, the sheriffs - w ...
    • TSA refuses to fulfill promise to conduct inde ...
      (NaturalNews) Not even a month after promising to conduct a legitimate, independent study on the safety of the illegal naked body scanners used in airports across the US, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole is now saying that such a measure is unnecessary, and ...
    • Subway nutrition information - it may not be a ...
      (NaturalNews) Subway presents itself as a healthy alternative to eating burgers. Compared to most fast food restaurants, the Subway franchises offer more menu choices which are lower in calories, carbs, fats and sodium. Also, the company website offers more complete nutritional facts than many o ...
    • Maine officials violate local food freedom ord ...
      (NaturalNews) In response to the escalating food tyranny against American farmers by state and federal officials, the town of Blue Hill, Maine, passed a local ordinance back in April that asserted the right of its citizens to grow, sell, buy, and consume the food of their choice (http://naturaln ...

    Threat Level

    • Anonymous Hacks Back at Cybercrime Investigators
      The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement. Antisec anons, who specialize in hacks that show the net’s vulnerabilities, gained access to the Gmail/Google account of one “Fred Baclagan.” Baclagan appears to ...
    • Media Can Avoid NYPD Arrest By Getting Press P ...
      A NYC spokesman says reporters should get an official press pass from the police to avoid getting arrested while covering Occupy Wall Street. He neglects to mention that the NYPD won't issue press passes to cover the protests.
    • H(ackers)2O: Attack on City Water Station Dest ...
      Hackers gained remote access into the control system of the city water utility in Springfield, Illinois, last week and destroyed a pump, according to a report released by a state fusion center and obtained by a security expert.
    • Analysis: Internet Blacklist Bill Is Roadmap t ...
      The rhetoric on both sides of the debate concerning the Stop Online Piracy Act almost peaked when Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said the House proposal "would mean the end of the internet as we know it." Lofgren's statement, however, is not that farfetched. Not if you actually read the bill.
    • Video: NYPD Rallies to Keep Occupy Wall Street ...
      Occupy Wall Street attempted Thursday morning to actually occupy the New York Stock Exchange, only to be met by a large contingent of police in riot gear. Wired.com's video team was there to capture the action.

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • McCain Attacks Joint Chiefs Chairman's Credibi ...
      Memo to Republicans: (1) Until President Obama appears on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit and an oversized cod piece, no conservative can ever accuse of him of taking too much credit for any national security success. (2) When it comes to Iraq, no one who has been as ...
    • The Republican "Job-Killing Regulations" Myth ...
      For years, what passes for Republican economic policy has been dominated by "necessary lies," that is, statements which conservative ideology requires to be true despite being demonstrably false. Despite decades of GOP mythmaking, tax cuts don't pay for themselves or increase revenue. Employme ...
    • Romney Pushes Privatization of Medicare, Veter ...
      Suppose you are a candidate for President of the United States. Suppose further that you know that over the past 40 years, the per-beneficiary cost of Medicare rose 40% less than private health insurance. Say you also know that studies consistently show that the Veteran's Administration (VA) h ...
    • Women's Champion Newt Gingrich Surges in GOP Race
      Here in a nutshell is the state of play in the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes: alleged serial sexual harasser Herman Cain is being surpassed by confirmed serial adulterer Newt Gingrich. With Mitt Romney stalled and Cain hemorrhaging support from women voters, polls from CBS and Marist ...
    • Gingrich Leads Republican Charge to Abolish th ...
      "Reality," Stephen Colbert famously told President Bush to his face, "has a well-known liberal bias." That inconvenient truth is at the heart of the expanding Republican war on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Increasingly frustrated by CBO analyses showing that the 2009 econ ...

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    • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
      The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
    • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
      Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
    • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
      In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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    • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
      About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

    Planetsave

    • Hiding the Incline (Global-Warming-Denier Junk ...
      One more excellent post from Skeptical Science this week that I just had to repost in full. Tellin’ it like it is: by dana1981 A number of climate not-so-skeptics have recently been exploiting global sea level data in their latest attempt to hide the incline.  Skeptical Science readers wil ...
    • PACT Announces Underwear Line for Japan
      I’ve written on PACT a couple times. It’s an organic underwear company for good. It’s helping to fight coal power on U.S. college campuses and it’s giving kudos to our everyday green heroes. Now, it’s also helping out some of the victims of the tremendous Japanese d ...
    • Increase of Extreme Weather Events & Global Wa ...
      Following up on my post earlier today about how climate change equals more extreme weather, here’s is a full repost of an excellent Skeptical Science article I’ve been wanting to share. Great content and well-presented: by Rob Painting For a more technical version of this post, see h ...
    • Help Keep a Virginia Mountain Standing
      iLoveMountains.org and many Virginians are now fighting to save a Ison Rock Ridge Standing. Why would it come down? Well, have you heard of mountaintop removal coal mining? This week, “Virginians who live at the base of Ison Rock Ridge, a mountain threatened by a pending mountaintop remova ...
    • Occupy — Finding Our Core
      The Occupy Movement is an amazing phenomenon. In less than two months it’s has aggregated into a global movement, taking a strong stand again the financial forces that have taken over the U.S. and so many other governments. There are no indications of us going away. Still, there are issues. The ...

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    Axis of Logic

    • Putin awarded Chinese peace prize - World News
      A group of Chinese academics has awarded its version of the Nobel Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin, an organizer said Tuesday, pointing to the Russian Prime Minister as “outstanding in keeping world peace.” Putin beat other candidates such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Yuan Longping, ...
    • Spain’s “Anti-Capitalist” electoral coalition: ...
      The Anti-Capitalist coalition (Anticapitalistas) is standing in Sunday’s general election in Spain. It was founded last month by Anticapitalist Left (Izquierda Anticapitalista—IA) and includes In Struggle (En Lucha), Internationalist Struggle (Lucha Internacionalista) and the Madrid Greens (Los ...
    • Haiti looking to build an army - World News
      Haitian President Michel Martelly says he is setting up a commission to study plans for a new security force, 16 years after the military was abolished. Mr Martelly said the panel would look at the aims of the new force and ways of replacing UN peacekeepers who have been deployed...
    • Egyptian police, protesters clash in Tahrir Sq ...
      Thousands of police clashed with protesters for control of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday after security forces tried to stop activists from staging a long-term sit-in there. At least 81 people were injured, state TV reported. The violence took place just nine days before E ...
    • Occupy Wall Street Strikes Back, Takes Over Fi ...
      Today, activists across the country plan to stage demonstrations in solidarity with Zuccotti Park’s evicted protesters. Early this morning, hundreds of demonstrators are marching on Wall Street, taking over the Financial District with mass protests. Police have moved in and started to a ...

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Everywhere the Occupation Thrives
      By @KYYellowDog Occupations in Lexington and Louisville are surviving and thriving. In that they are the rule, not the exception. Phoenix Woman at Firedoglake: There actually is a bit of good news on the Occupy front. Aside from the astonishing fact that the CBS Evening News last night actually ...
    • Know-nothing Mob Calling the Shots in GOP
      By @TedFrier Republican leaders are learning the hard way what Robespierre learned a long time ago: That eventually all revolutions eat their children. Live by the mob, die by the mob. How a party thinks is more important than what it thinks. And so, Kathleen Parker on the right and Paul Begala ...
    • 'Twas Ever Thus
      By @BGinKC I don't know how to break it to you, but police brutality in the service of the one-percent has always been the institution's  reason-for-being in the United States of America. One need only look at the history of policing in America to arrive at the realization that fealty to th ...
    • How Corporations Fight the "Insurgency"
      By @KYYellowDog Just as data collection and surveillance of citizens by corporations is far more extensive and dangerous than that by government, so is the way corporations attack citizens who refuse to obey their One Percenter masters. Robert Johnson at Business Insider: Fracking is a contentio ...
    • "Give American workers and businesses the chan ...
      By @KYYellowDog If you want to save and expand American jobs, Mr. President, stop signing job-killing "trade" agreements. Full transcript here.

    Care 2

    • Tell the Super Committee to say "NO!" to the S ...
      For weeks, the Ag Committees' leaders have been covertly writing the next federal farm bill, hoping to slip it into law through the top-secret Super Committee process. No hearings. No debate. Just billions in government handouts for corporate mega-farms. Submitted by Nancy C. to US Politics ...
    • Heterochromia in Cats
      In a condition called complete heterochromia, the whole iris of one eye is a different color from the iris of the other eye. Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • How to Save Money and Energy in Your Bedroom a ...
      Your bedroom and bathroom might seem like your garage door, nothing more than mere necessities. That may be true, but you cant live without a bathroom, and a great nights sleep is solely dependent on how comfortable your bed is. Submitted by Agnes N. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note- ...
    • 5 Ridiculous Myths People Use to Trash Local F ...
      Articles "debunking" the local food movement are stale, shallow and often incorrect. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • My First Rescued Thanksgiving Turkey
      Twelve years ago a man approached The Gentle Barn and said that he purchased a turkey for thanksgiving and was planning to raise him and slaughter him for the holiday, but when it came time to do the deed, he could not do it. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!   ...

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    No Quarter

    • Congress Hates Kids!
      Remember the Food and Drug Administration’s numb-nuts directive under President Reagan that would have reclassified ketchup and pickle relish from condiments to vegetables? Reason? It would rig the nutritional guidelines so that money could be saved by deleting actual vegetables from school lunc ...
    • Dancing With the GOP Stars
      (INTRO by Larry Johnson–For those who were not reading the blog in 2008, RobWarrior did a terrific radio show and created some sketches worthy of a comedy show. He regularly skewered Obama. I’ve asked him to turn his talents to the GOP field. Enjoy.) What if the 9th Republican Presid ...
    • Congressional Insider Trading Scandal Is the F ...
      Steve Kroft’s explosive 60 Minutes report on rampant ‘legal’ congressional insider trading last Sunday provoked fury and heartache at an elitist political class spiraling out of control. I cannot claim to have romantic notions about any politician, but this latest disclosure is the f ...
    • Tofurkey, Texas? Obama,The Harvard Year, And T ...
      Evidently, PETA has managed to do SO Much on behalf of animals, that they are now targeting the names of towns. I am not making this up, I swear. Yes, PETA, in its infinite wisdom, has requested that Turkey, Texas, change its name to Tofurky, Texas. No, seriously. For real: As Thanksgiving appro ...
    • Ann Barnhardt Goes Galt
      Whether or not Ann Barnhardt is a bona fide embodiment of Ayn Rand’s character, John Galt, I will defer to Rand fans to debate. But she is certainly attracting attention because of her bold (crazy?, prophetic?) move yesterday in shuttering her commodity brokerage. Here is her economic decl ...

    Futurismic

    • Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
        Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
    • The Grand Lie
      Most of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...
    • The Shameful Joys of Deus Ex: Human Revolutions
        Context, Dear Boy… Context Here is a common complaint: ‘One of the problems facing video game writing is a systemic failure to place games in their correct historical context’ What this generally means is that writers fail to open their reviews with a lengthy diatribe on the history ...
    • When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
      I’ve been writing here at Futurismic for well over five years, now. It feels like longer, somehow, but it also feels like I only just started. I’ve learned a lot of things, not least of which is the fact that, the more you learn, the more you realise remains to be learned. One of the ...
    • BOOK REVIEW: Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley
      Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley Edge SF&F (Canada), 2011; ~280pp; C$14.95 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1894063548 Budgie is a Vidicon, a member of one of the countless drug-fuelled gangs who fight to the death for territory and prestige in the red levels of the T-Dot ultramall. He sends the last ...

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    • Recommendations to Reduce HIV Counselor Stress ...
      People who work in AIDS service organizations (ASOs) are at increased risk for stress from several factors, including heavy caseload, fear of contamination, poor working conditions and stress associated with delivering a life-threatening diagnosis. “Recommended guidelines exist to help medical p ...
    • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
      A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Take some time to enjoy the round-up articles before the hectic Thanksgiving holiday next week! Frequent Gamers Have Brain Differences, Study Finds Alcoholics’ Brains Must Work Harder Introverts Experience More Health Problems, Study Suggests ...
    • Dealing with Troubled Youth, Part 1: “Parentin ...
      Drug use in the United States is a serious problem among the adolescent population. At some point in your teen’s life, it is likely that your son or daughter may use drugs as a result of peer pressure or maybe even experimentation. Many people seek my professional opinion on how to tell if their ...
    • Can Reading an Article Improve my Relationship?
      As a Relationship Therapist of over 25 years, my answer to this question is “Yes.” You may think you don’t have time to read relationship advice articles. You may think you don’t need to go to some “outsider” about your personal relationship. But consider this: When your car breaks down, you tak ...
    • Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Treatment of PT ...
      Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) has been identified as one of the most effective forms of therapy for veterans with PTSD resulting from combat. Veterans from Vietnam, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation New Dawn (OND), along with Gulf War Veterans, strug ...

    Mountaintop Removal

    • The Buzz Anonymous comments from our readers o ...
      The Buzz Anonymous comments from our readers on the issues of the day Charlotte Observer CMS is like mountaintop removal mining; raise the bottom by lowering the top. Looks like BofA isn't so "transparent" with their layoff notices. Pull names from a hat to elect leaders? Start wit ...
    • Help Keep a Virginia Mountain Standing - Plane ...
      Help Keep a Virginia Mountain Standing PlanetSave.com Well, have you heard of mountaintop removal coal mining? This week, “Virginians who live at the base of Ison Rock Ridge, a mountain threatened by a pending mountaintop removal permit, have been joined by hundreds from across the region for Vi ...
    • Court of Appeals hears mountaintop removal fig ...
      Court of Appeals hears mountaintop removal fight Ventura County Star Local residents who have lived in the area for five generations and an environmental group opposed the planned surface and mountaintop removal mining by Laurel Mountain Resources because of concerns about blasting and flooding ...
    • Environmentalists Decry Mining - Salem State Log
      Environmentalists Decry Mining Salem State Log Environmentalists Dave Cooper of West Virginia and Gloucester native Squirrel Bracken spoke out against mining corporations such as Alpha Natural Resources and their mountain top removal operations for coal mining in West Virginia in the Sullivan .. ...
    • Mining lobby admits it: Coal jobs are on the r ...
      Charleston Gazette (blog) Mining lobby admits it: Coal jobs are on the rise Charleston Gazette (blog) Since 2007, as production in Central Appalachia has shifted away from mountaintop removal and back toward underground mining, the increase in employment at underground mines has more than offset ...

    Memeorandum

    • The do-nothing plan: now worth $7.1 trillion ( ...
      Ezra Klein / Washington Post: The do-nothing plan: now worth $7.1 trillion  —  In the past, I've talked about the “do-nothing plan” for deficit reduction: Congress heads home to spend more time with their campaign contributors, and the Bush tax cuts automatically exp ...
    • Protester Brandon Watts, who was first to pitc ...
      NY Daily News: Protester Brandon Watts, who was first to pitch a tent at Zuccotti Park, is now the bloody face of ‘Day of Action’  —  Occupier is a lover and a fighter - he says he lost his virginity in the park  —  Police arrest Brandon Watts, 20, in ...
    • Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis (James Fall ...
      James Fallows / The Atlantic Online: Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis  —  In case you haven't yet seen the YouTube footage of what happened yesterday at UC Davis, here it is.  The first minute has the main drama:  —  Let's stipulate that there are legitima ...
    • Niche Voters Giving Paul Momentum in Iowa Poll ...
      Trip Gabriel / New York Times: Niche Voters Giving Paul Momentum in Iowa Polls  —  VINTON, Iowa — Steve and Cindy Anders belong to one of Iowa's most politically savvy movements — Christian home-schoolers, whose organizing on behalf of Mike Huckabee in 2008 was one o ...
    • The Palinization of the GOP (Kathleen Parker/W ...
      Kathleen Parker / Washington Post: The Palinization of the GOP  —  The headline on Democratic strategist Paul Begala's recent Newsweek essay dodged subtlety: “The Stupid Party.”  —  “Republicans used to admire intelligence.  But now they're ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Growing danger in the Himalayas
      Climate change is creating numerous, fast-expanding glacier lakes that threaten to burst their banks at some stage, bringing devastating floods and landslides to mountain valleys and their inhabitants. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.(See Suzanne Goldenberg’s video report from Imja lake in Nepa ...
    • Talking about the Yarlung Zangbo
      Half-truths, fear and suspicion fuel the debate over south Asia’s shared waters. But journalists can help open up the conversation, writes Beth Walker, cheered by a media workshop in Kathmandu.There is a well-known Chinese story, told by the philosopher Zhuangzi, about a frog who lived dow ...
    • The Chinese shadow over Boeung Kak lake (1)
      The forced relocation of thousands of residents from a Cambodian lakeside has drawn global condemnation. Less widely discussed is the role of Chinese corporations. Liao Ruo reports.The shores of Boeung Kak Lake, a 90-hectare body of sparkling blue water on the north-eastern edge of Cambodia&rsqu ...
    • The Chinese shadow over Boeung Kak lake (2)
      Where rule of law is weak, China’s investors should be wary of hiding behind local regulations, writes Liao Ruo, concluding a two-part article.Perhaps concerned about the negative impact of the “relocations” from Boeung Kak, the commercial attaché at China’s embass ...
    • “China’s firms lag in green ranks& ...
      Big Chinese business must strive to climb higher in global environmental lists, writes Ni Huan, following a less than stellar performance this autumn. There are barriers, but they can be overcome. Editor’s note: in recent weeks, two reports have hammered home the message that China’ ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Police Clear Zuccotti Park: A First Reflection
      Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily by Donna Schaper Why in the middle of the night? Why with so much police power? Why did they think they had to shove people out? The good news is that this action, so unnecessary, will build the movement even more. Yes, the people in the park had become tired, [ ...
    • Cain's Milwaukee Meltdown: Will Koch Still Lov ...
      It wasn't just Libya policy that left Cain tongue-tied before the Journal Sentinel ed board: He didn't want to talk about the Koch-linked Prosperity 101 program.
    • Detainees: Working For $1 A Day, Using Phone f ...
      Correction Corporation of America’s Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia is the largest private detention center in the nation. It holds 2000 detainees, charging taxpayers up to $200 a night and producing yearly profits that hover between $35 and $50 million. The facility secures more inco ...
    • Obama: Kids Stuck in Foster Care Due to Deport ...
      In a briefing last week, President Obama directly acknowledged that his administration’s immigration enforcement practices break up families.
    • Saudi 9/11 Alert: Here’s That Missing Lloyd’s ...
      You may recall WhoWhatWhy’s recent investigation of apparent connections between Saudi royalty and the alleged 9/11 hijackers. In it, we mentioned that the insurance giant Lloyd’s of London had sued powerful Saudi interests, alleging culpability for the 2001 attacks–then abruptly withdrew ...

    Threat Level

    • Anonymous Hacks Back at Cybercrime Investigators
      The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement. Antisec anons, who specialize in hacks that show the net’s vulnerabilities, gained access to the Gmail/Google account of one “Fred Baclagan.” Baclagan appears to ...
    • Media Can Avoid NYPD Arrest By Getting Press P ...
      A NYC spokesman says reporters should get an official press pass from the police to avoid getting arrested while covering Occupy Wall Street. He neglects to mention that the NYPD won't issue press passes to cover the protests.
    • H(ackers)2O: Attack on City Water Station Dest ...
      Hackers gained remote access into the control system of the city water utility in Springfield, Illinois, last week and destroyed a pump, according to a report released by a state fusion center and obtained by a security expert.
    • Analysis: Internet Blacklist Bill Is Roadmap t ...
      The rhetoric on both sides of the debate concerning the Stop Online Piracy Act almost peaked when Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said the House proposal "would mean the end of the internet as we know it." Lofgren's statement, however, is not that farfetched. Not if you actually read the bill.
    • Video: NYPD Rallies to Keep Occupy Wall Street ...
      Occupy Wall Street attempted Thursday morning to actually occupy the New York Stock Exchange, only to be met by a large contingent of police in riot gear. Wired.com's video team was there to capture the action.

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      Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    PDA AMERICA

    • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
      Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
    • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
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    • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
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    Marler Blog

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      New numbers from the St. Louis Department of Health: Number of Missourians confirmed to have E. coli connected to the St. Louis investigation: 35 Number of food samples, connected to the St. Louis outbreak, tested to date: 55 Number of food samples confirmed to have E. coli: 0
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      A total of 43 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis were reported from 5 states. Epidemiologic and laboratory investigations conducted by officials in local, state, and federal public health, agriculture, and regulatory agencies linked this outbreak to eating T ...
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    AutoblogGreen

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    • Official: Chevy Volt ready for California HOV ...
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    Rafe's Radar

    Camera Obscura

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    • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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    • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
      http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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    Democracy Now!

    • The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street
      We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot police had already surrounded the area. As they ripped down the tents, city ...
    • Amy Goodman Interviews Occupy Oakland Man Befo ...
      Before dawn on Monday morning, hundreds of police in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment in order to evict peaceful protesters. They arrested more than 30 people who chose to remain as an act of civil disobedience. Later in the day, Mayor Jean Quan’s chief legal adviser resig ...
    • 20th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre: Watch ...
      On November 12, 1991 Indonesian troops fired on a peaceful memorial procession in a cemetery in Dili, East Timor, killing more than 270 East Timorese. Journalists Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn were beaten while reporting on the massacre. Watch the radio documentary they produced, set to video, ...
    • Full Video: 39 Arrested with Occupy Cal in For ...
      This week the Occupy movement drew thousands of California college students to protests on at least 10 campuses, including UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Berkeley, where police forcibly removed students and arrested 39 people. The University of California system faces some of the steepest budget cuts ...
    • "Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden" By ...
      More than 10,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., last Sunday with a simple goal: Encircle the White House. They succeeded, just weeks after 1,253 people were arrested in a series of protests at the same spot. These thousands, as well as those arrested, were unified in their opposition to t ...

    Suzie-Q

    Solari

    • Occupy Wall Street Declares Goldman Sachs Guilty
      General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity. buzzflash Collected from youtube.com
    • Central Bank Gold Purchases Soar
      By Rhiannon Hoyle otal central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than a year earlier as countries continued to diversify reserves, according to a World Gold Council report. At 148.4 metric tons, gold buying amon ...
    • Quote du Jour
      Artist:Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) “Are you all so fulfilled in participating in on-going creating, you can afford to waste time pondering the end.” — Jesus as translated by Aramaic scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz
    • NANO Chemtrails
      By William Thomas  If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the United States Air Force promises will feature aerial dumps of programmable “smart” molecules tens of thousands of times smaller than ...
    • Dr. William Tiller – Scientific Support ...
      By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on The Solari Report (6pm PT/9pm ET) I will be speaking with scientist and author Dr. William A. Tiller. Fellow to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Dr.  Tiller is a professor emeritus of Stanford University’s Department of Mate ...

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

    • Times Scare
      ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
    • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
      Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
    • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
      BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
    • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
      Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
    • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
      Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

    • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
      The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
    • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
      Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
    • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
      Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
    • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
      The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
    • 10 green resolutions to save you money
      By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

    Fabius Maximus

    • Question time on the FM website – chapter 12
      Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   Like Jeopardy, your comments must be in the form of a question!  All answers welcomed! Questions received so far (click on the link to go directl ...
    • Advice from one of the British Empire’s ...
      Summary:  As our mad, expensive but profitless empire weighs us down, we can learn from the policies of the greatest western empire since Rome.  One of its leaders explains the key aspects of their grand strategy. From a speech by Lord Palmerston, one of Britain’s great Foreign Ministers ( ...
    • A modern conservative dresses up Mr. Potter to ...
      Summary:  Today, like every day, we get a serving of glittering myths from a conservative economist.  Constant barrages of chaff shot into our minds keep us docile, our OODA loops confused.  We must see the true situation in order to even begin reclaiming America. “Whatever Happened to Dis ...
    • The good news: America’s politics are n ...
      Summary:  How sad that we so underestimate our leaders, confusing their skillful political engineering with folly.  Of course their successful manipulation of us allows them to laugh at our scorn.  This is the next in a series; at the end are links to previous chapters. Many Americans rage at th ...
    • Who caused the housing crisis? Why do people ...
      Summary:  Among our most serious problems is the success of well-funded engines of propaganda at manipulating public opinion, making effective public policy reforms almost impossible.  Here we examine one example, convincing Americans that the government caused the housing bubble.  This is a fol ...

    Open Your Eyes News

    • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
      Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
    • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
      Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
    • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
      PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
    • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
      IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
    • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
      Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

    The Progressive Realist

    • More on "Selling Taiwan to China"': Satire, or ...
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    • Will NATO Intervene In Syria?
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    • Where You Sit Is Where You Stand, Example No. ...
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    • Technologies of Protest and Control
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    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • What to Read Before You Unwonk for the Weekend
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    • The Showman
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    • One Small Step for Climate Scientists
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    • The Elephant in the Room
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    Buzzflash

    • The Sanctimonious Scavengers of the Penn State ...
      WALTER BRASCH FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There is nothing the media love more than a good celebrity sex scandal. Since the story of Scarlett Johansson's purloined nude pictures had run its course, and the media squeezed every drop of ink it could from the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries engagement/ ...
    • Is There a Conspiracy to Suppress Occupy Wall ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Was there a somewhat coordinated effort among cities with Occupy encampments and the federal government to shut them down? If true, the implications of such a status quo government consensus to crush a populist movement would be an affront to democr ...
    • Mayors Who Attempt to End Occupy Protests Are ...
      ROBERT CREAMER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the last few days there has been what appears to be a coordinated attempt by many of the nation's mayors to end the Occupy Wall Street protests that have swept the country - and much of the world. Many justifications have been given:  concerns abo ...
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      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The felonious Supreme Court 5-4 majority stole the election in 2000 for George W. Bush, allowed corporations to buy the government in the Citizens United decision and is now getting ready to shoot down health care reform. Yes, the final court op ...
    • The Big Newt Hypocrite: Gingrich Gets Paid $1 ...
      TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The $1.6 million that Gingrich got from them Was just as an "historian?" That's like my insisting my old Mazda pickup Was actually a DeLorean. http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/did-historian-newt-really-warn-freddie-mac-about-housing-collapse. ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • What’s the best month to be born?
      According to a post from Stuart Farrimond, there’s a wealth of data showing that your month of birth actually has a very small but noticeable difference in your long-term health. Not because of astrological nonsense, but because of exposure to sunlight, disease and other factors during cri ...
    • The little book of black delights
      Schadenfreude: pleasure derived from another’s misfortune. Black humour. The hilarity experienced in watching a pratfall, the clumsy slip on a well-placed banana skin. From the German compound noun, deriving from Schaden (adversity, harm) and Freude (joy). Obvious. ...
    • Pressure can melt ice, but not enough…
      Countless text books and armchair scientists will tell you that the reason we can skate on ice is that the pressure we apply through the blades of our skates is enough to lower the freezing point of the ice so that it melts and a surface layer of slippery liquid water forms across which the [... ...
    • Deep Sky Videos
      From the makers of the world-famous Periodic Table of Videos (with my good friend Professor Martyn Poliakoff) and SixtySymbols comes the Periodic Table of Astronomy the DeepSkyVideos Youtube channel; they’re also on twitter with that handle. A sneak preview for Sciencebase readers: Related ...
    • Rhodiola rosea supplements
      Rhodiola rosea is a so-called “adaptogenic” herb that countless spam emails claim can improve wellbeing, exercise capacity and cognitive performance as well as reducing stress responses. I have written about it before and debunked this spurious CAM remedy at length. I keep a weather ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Two Thousand Chicagoans RALLY to Demand “Jobs ...
      Over 2,000 people marched downtown today and occupied the LaSalle Street Bridge for over an hour to oppose cuts to essential services and demand job creating policies. Forty-six people were arrested for occupying the bridge, an act symbolizing an “Economic Emergency for the 99%” with ...
    • Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Opp ...
      Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), today released the following statement after voting against the failed House Republican Balanced Budget Amendment:read more
    • In the Wake of Occupy Crackdown, NLG Taps Feds ...
      The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests Thursday with the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence A ...
    • WTO Rules Against Country-of-Origin Meat Label ...
      The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling today against another highly popular U.S. consumer policy – country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for meat cuts and products – will only intensify public opposition to more of the same backwards trade pacts, Public Citizen said. A panel r ...
    • Reform Groups Urge Congress to Prohibit Congre ...
      Seven reform groups sent letters today urging members of both the House of Representatives and Senate to join in the legislative drive to pass the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge” (STOCK) Act. The measures – one in the House sponsored by Reps. Timothy Walz (D-Minn.) an ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • How Wall Street Rally Views the Protesters
      Greg Sargent MSNBC’s Chris Hayes just aired an exclusive that provides an interesting look at how some of those being targeted by Occupy Wall Street may really view the protests. He reported that a memo from a prominent corporate lobb ...
    • Here’s What Attempted Co-Option of OWS Looks Like
      Glenn Greenwald The 2012 election is almost a full year away and nobody knows who is running against President Obama, but that didn’t stop Mary Kay Henry, the D.C.-based National President of the Service Employees International Union ...
    • Banks, Pentagon and Academic Pusillanimousness
      Linh Dinh “I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy.” —GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain Not everything, mind you, but anything, which would put him on par with the dumbest American living under t ...
    • 1914 Déjà Vu in the South China Sea
      Eric Margolis I've a lovely little painting in my study of Germany's first emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm 1. It was painted soon after the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War and the creation of a united Germany with Wilhelm as its monarch – ...
    • Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Opens Eastern Front f ...
      Michelle Chen With the U.S. economy stuck in a constant rut and Europe going into a tailspin, President Obama is looking to escape to the East. While the nations of the Asia Pacific rim face strains of their own, from massive inequality to ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

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